Three Dimensional Analysis of the Final Design of Pier Extensions and West Guide Wall to Mitigate Local Scour Risk at the BNSF Railroad Bridge Downstream of the Prado Dam Supplemental Report
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, McLean, VA (United States)
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MI (United States), Coastal and Hydraulics Lab
This report is a supplement to a previous report [ref] covering optimization of wedge shaped pier extensions to streamline large bluff body piers as a local scour countermeasure for the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe (BNSF) Railroad Bridge over the Santa Ana River downstream of Prado Dam in Riverside County, CA. The optimized design was tested in a 1/30 scale physical model at U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, MS, and the optimized design was used as the base for the construction design. Constructability issues having to do with both materials and site conditions including access underneath the BNSF bridge yielded a construction design that required making the pier extensions wider and either moving the western curve of the west guide wall upstream or changing its geometry.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; U.S. Department of Transportation - Federal Highway Administration
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 1327819
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/ESD-16/18; 130317
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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